VirCoin2SME · Social, complementary or community virtual currencies transfer of knowledge to SME: a new era for competitiveness and entrepreneurship
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2014-12-01 → 2016-11-30
- EU contribution
- €378,000
- Participants
- 6
- Scheme
- MSCA-RISE
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Results in brief
Social, complementary or community virtual currencies transfer of knowledge to SME: a new era for competitiveness and entrepreneurship
The idea of Vircoin2SME project is to support the social, complementary or community virtual currencies transfer of knowledge to SME contributing with a new era for competitiveness and entrepreneurship. With a collaborative working scheme, all Vircoin2SME partners have been involved in secondments, both sending and receiving staff in secondments. Even if all the scientific objectives, deliverables and milestones have been fully achieved, the secondment objectives have been partly achieved with some deviation in terms of the implemented secondment months. The objectives have been achieved by implementing a collaborative working scheme where research entities have been designed the methodology and elaborate final guidelines to develop, according to the actual business scenarios defined and analysed by the private companies involved in VirCoin2SME, in the two respective sectors that will act as use cases for study and proposals development: healthcare and tourism which are very important topics for the society. The overall objectives were the following: 1. To compare different models of social networks influence on business processes 2. To analyse the mechanisms behind the adoption of social, complementary or community virtual currencies. 3. To research on the potential impact of digital innovation and alternative currencies development in social, environmental and economic sustainability. 4. To develop two sector-oriented proposals/guidelines (healthcare and tourism) for developing sustainable business models based on the use of complementary and/or virtual currencies
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Project objective
With the advent of social networks and Mobile networks, new online communities are being created around sustainable topics (environmental, social, community development). The phenomena, known as digital social innovation, generates a positive ecosystem where business and social development enabled with new behaviours boosted by social, complementary or community currencies deployed as virtual currencies have a great potential for competitiveness, and entrepreneurship, but also for fostering social responsibility in Europe. VirCoin2SME projects aims at studying how the business development could be fully deployed around the ecosystem of social networks and virtual currencies, which facilities new exchanges for wealthier communities.Research objectives to be developed in VirCoin2SME project are:1.To compare different models of social networks influence on business processes 2.To analyze the mechanisms behind the adoption of social, complementary or community virtual currencies. 3.To research on the potential impact of digital innovation and alternative currencies development in social, environmental and economic sustainability.4.To develop two sector-oriented proposals/guidelines (healthcare and tourism) for developing sustainable business models based on the use of complementary and/or virtual currenciesThe previous research objectives will be achieved by implementing a collaborative working scheme where research entities will design the methodology and elaborate final guidelines to develop, according to the actual business scenarios defined and analyzed by the private companies involved in VirCoin2SME, in the two respective sectors that will act as use cases for study and proposals development: healthcare and tourism. Dissemination and communication activities will be designed and developed in parallel to ensure the wider impact of the knowledge generated and to foster new business generation around sustainable models not only in Europe,but internationally.
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Links
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- DOI: 10.3030/645767
- https://web.archive.org/web/20160501043702/http://vircoin2sme.com/
- https://www.ec.europa.eu/research/participants/documents/downloadPublic?documentIds=080166e5a2dd33ca&appId=PPGMS
- https://www.ec.europa.eu/research/participants/documents/downloadPublic?documentIds=080166e5ad31711d&appId=PPGMS
- https://www.ec.europa.eu/research/participants/documents/downloadPublic?documentIds=080166e5af68150c&appId=PPGMS
Data: CORDIS, © European Union